Friday Funnies

The next generation of electric cars

Henry Payne | September 25, 2009

Comments

Suki|9.25.09 @ 7:23AM|#

LOL and scary true!

Tomcat1066|9.25.09 @ 7:40AM|#

Not so much funny as true.

But Obama wants me to tell you that the car companies will build cars powered by unicorn farts that get a billion miles to the gallon and produces money as exhaust, which will fund all the great programs that Obama has in store for us.

Fist of Etiquette|9.25.09 @ 7:43AM|#

2016 and still no flying cars? What a gyp.

(And men's fashion doesn't seem to have advanced much either.)

Suki|9.25.09 @ 7:50AM|#

What a gyp.

That's racism straight up.

comrade|9.25.09 @ 7:53AM|#

But Obama wants me to tell you that the car companies will build cars powered by unicorn farts that get a billion miles to the gallon and produces money as exhaust, which will fund all the great programs that Obama has in store for us.

You racist liar. Obama would never sanction the factory farming of unicorns for their farts.

|9.25.09 @ 8:00AM|#

Hey Suki!

i give it a c+. we cant plug in the electric car because now electricy is banned is a little to much of a comic stetch to be funny.

Tomcat1066|9.25.09 @ 8:08AM|#

comrade:

Obama wanted me to tell you that it wasn't the factory farming of unicorn farts, but farts would be harvested through a collective barganing agreement reached between the government and the union representing the unicorn interests, the SEIU.

Tomcat1066|9.25.09 @ 8:09AM|#

Oh, and calling someone who speaks for Obama racist? That's just racist!

|9.25.09 @ 8:16AM|#

I think this one is an exceptionally good choice by the editors, but ten gets you one that next week they'll regress to the mean and pick the most forgettable cartoon they can find.

@|9.25.09 @ 8:17AM|#

Replace the cord with a key-winder on the roof and you've got comedy gold, bay-bee!

Xeones|9.25.09 @ 8:22AM|#

Not funny, though i did chuckle grimly.

Hottie16|9.25.09 @ 8:37AM|#

Convoluted

Art-P.O.G.|9.25.09 @ 8:55AM|#

domoarrigato,

Nothing's a stretch in the year 2015.

Kolohe|9.25.09 @ 9:00AM|#

Replace the cord with a key-winder on the roof and you've got comedy gold, bay-bee!

Absolutely. It doesn't make sense to still have an electric car with a power cord & plug if there are no power plants.

Alternative: The Flinstone's car.

proud libitard|9.25.09 @ 9:00AM|#

Obama wants you to bike to work

|9.25.09 @ 9:01AM|#

The fact that there's no Mr. Fusion on that car just sucks.

Anonymous|9.25.09 @ 9:12AM|#

The fact that there's no Mr. Fusion on that car just sucks.

Do you know how many baby seals are de-boned to manufacture your precious flux capacitor? And what about the displaced habitats of the screaming cockroach? Fascist.

|9.25.09 @ 9:20AM|#

Not funny
Relevant but not poignant
Artwork only fair

Grade: C

Payne always better than Bok

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|9.25.09 @ 10:09AM|#

ROR

By two, wear them as electric skates

|9.25.09 @ 11:27AM|#

By 2016, we'll have perpetual motion cars, constructed of polished upsidaisium, which will cost nothing at all.

Obama wants us to believe this.

|9.25.09 @ 12:22PM|#

I believe that to put things in perspective, it is time to rebrand the electric car as "coal powered". That should impress the greenies.

Brian Lockwood|9.25.09 @ 12:34PM|#

Are these Friday Funnies ever actually funny? I'm never impressed.

Paul|9.25.09 @ 12:51PM|#

I believe that to put things in perspective, it is time to rebrand the electric car as "coal powered". That should impress the greenies.

That's an interesting point...

duster|9.25.09 @ 1:25PM|#

I love the Friday Funnies...comments section.

|9.25.09 @ 2:07PM|#

Now where did I leave those dylithium crystals?

|9.25.09 @ 2:14PM|#

Wonder when the secret service (aka gestapo) is going to trade in the SUVS and full size sedans for one of these.

N.Y. Times Turtleneck Guy|9.25.09 @ 2:36PM|#

I love the Friday Funnies...comments section

I'll trade you my Fashion & Style Section for your Friday Funnies Comments Section.

Tsu Dho NIhm|9.25.09 @ 7:30PM|#

I believe that to put things in perspective, it is time to rebrand the electric car as "coal powered". That should impress the greenies.

I've been trying to get that point across to them for quite a while now. Considering the inefficiency of our electrical grid, electric vehicles may end up being one huge ecological disaster.

Plant Immigration Rights Suppo|9.25.09 @ 8:44PM|#

"I believe that to put things in perspective, it is time to rebrand the electric car as "coal powered". That should impress the greenies."

I love it! Time to take back the language of the debate!

|9.26.09 @ 3:41PM|#

In a symphony.

In the light
of a symphony
there's a charming
intention, and
also that fortune;
there's a little
desire and the
sound of a
beautiful noise....

Francesco Sinibaldi

|9.27.09 @ 3:11AM|#

# Suki | September 25, 2009, 7:50am | #
# What a gyp.

# That's racism straight up.

Are gypsies an official race now? I don't recall that being a selection on the last census form. I'll look for it next time.

|9.27.09 @ 3:20AM|#

# AlfromAlberta | September 25, 2009, 12:22pm | #

# I believe that to put things in perspective,
# it is time to rebrand the electric car as
# "coal powered". That should impress the
# greenies.

Maybe that's the way it is in Alberta, ya Canuck ya, but here in California there's a pretty good mix of natural gas, hydro, nuclear, geothermal, wind and solar electricity flowing around the grid. Electric cars don't care where the electrons come from, so it's rather unfair to brand them as being powered by any particular electron source. Also, well-heeled EV owners can install solar panels and power their cars from the sun alone, not depending on any grid electrons at all. Several owners of the speedy and sexy Tesla Roadster have done just that. Here is the blog of one such fellow:

http://wildershares.com/solar.php

|9.27.09 @ 3:29AM|#

Oh, and I forgot to say that, over the time period that EVs will be available to and embraced by the mainstream (probably a couple of decades), it is very feasible to create solar farms, scattered throughout the desert southwest, which will offset the electricity consumption of all the EVs that the automobile industry can put on the road in the west. Eastern states, like Los Angeles did with the Colorado river, could project infrastructure into the West to tap into our wealth of solar energy. We can produce enough solar energy to run our own cars and those of our eastern neighbors combined, so long as the national grid can accommodate it all. Enhancing the grid might be an excellent infrastructure investment, if we are really serious about alternative energy sources.